GREEN GLOSSARY

At Nature’s Carpet, we continually seek to understand our customer’s needs. Ongoing research and product development will enable us to offer an even greater selection of natural floor coverings, combining comfort and environmental responsibility . In today’s world, defining the term “Green” is more difficult. Therefore, we have created the “Green Glossary” to clarify to help you to make the best informed choice about your carpet.

Renewable resource

A renewable resource is a natural resource whose stock is renewable as soon as it has been used. In the carpet Industry, the main renewable resource employed is wool, which grows permanently on the sheep’s back. Other animal hairs, like cashmere, and vegetable fibers, like jute, as easily renewable, are used too.

Biodegradable

Biodegradation is the process by which organic substances are broken down by living organisms like bacteria or fungus which develop under certain natural conditions.

Reusable

A material is said reusable when you can re-use it for another purpose without any alteration. It is an environment-friendly practice, for it means that you are not going to use any extra-treatment, any extra-resource or any extra-power to employ the material again. This practice is getting more and more important in the industrial world. Nature's Carpet proposes a wool underpad made entirely from wool yarns scraps salvaged from yarn bobbins. By reusing these scraps instead of throwing them away, we illustrate exactly the notion of reusing: avoiding to waste anything we can by finding new fields of application, in order to preserve our environment. 

Recyclable

Recycling is an environmental practice which enables to limit the huge quantity of wastes our society produces and hardly gets rid of. It consists in salvaging wastes and transforming them in order to use them under a new shape.